Vending-machine.



No. 802,578. PATENTED OUT. 24, 1905. W. P. MAOARTOR.

VENDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8.1904.

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VENDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE K1904.

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VENDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8,1904.

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WILLIAM P. MAOARTOR, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO UNITED STATES PENCIL VENDING COMPANY, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, A CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA.

VENDING-MACHINE.

Patented Oct. 24, 1905.

Application filed June 8, 1904. Serial No. 211,691.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. MAcAnroR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vendin Machines and I do hereby declare the f0 lowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to mechanism for handling articles, and particularly to vending-machines; and some of the objects of the invention are to provide a machine of this general character which. will be simple and cheap in construction, while being positive and efficient in operation.

Another object of the invention is to provide for the automatic progression of the commodity-carrier intermittently or after each portion thereof shall have become empty.

It is also an object of this invention to provide an improved ejecting or discharging mechanism for the commodity vended and to provide means whereby the ejectment or discharge is effected to operate the progression of the commodity-carrier.

WVith these and other objects in view the invention. consists, essentially, in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts substantially as more fully described in the following specification and as illus trated in the accompanying drawings,forming part of this application, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevational view of the machine, partly broken away and partly in section, with the upper portion of the casing removed. Fig. 2 is a side elevational view,

' partly in section, ofthe construction illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a top plan view, partly broken away, showing the top or cover removed. Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmental detail View of the ejecting or discharging mechanism, showing the same in its normal position. Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4, illustrating the ejecting or discharging mechanism in its discharging position. Fig. 6 is a detail view of the coinchute, and Fig. 7 is a detail view of the lower portion of one member of the commoditycarrier.

Similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several vlews.

Referring to the drawings, and particularly to the construction illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 thereof, the reference character 1 designates a sheath or casing of any preferred construction, form, or material, preferably provided with a top or cover 2, which may be secured thereon in any suitable manner. Upon the bottom of the casing is preferably mounted a socket or hearing 3, where in is rotatably mounted a shaft or spindle 4, the upper end whereof is supported movably in a frame or braces 5, with which is connect ed a brace or transverse plate 6, and lugs or brackets 7, substantially as shown. Upon the shaft or spindle 4. are movably mounted disks or spiders 8, through which pass co1nmodity-receptacles 9, preferably notched or cut away at one end, as shown at 10, Figs. 1, 2, and 7 of the drawings, to permit of the discharge of the commodity or article vended, and said receptacles are also provided with openings 11 to permit the entrance of the ejecting device, substantially hereinafter more fully described. Beneath the lower disk 8 and over the end of the com modity-receptacles 9 is preferably secured a ring 12, constructed to receive and support the commodities or articles vended and from which such articles are forced into the central portion of the machine by the ecting or discharging mechanism essentially as subsequently explained.

Suitably disposed beneath the commoditycarrier and within the lower portion of the casing is an incline or chuteway 13, preferably terminating upon the exterior of the casing in a receiver 14 for the commodity or article vended and from which receiver the same can be removed by the purchaser in the usual manner.

Division plates or partitions 15 are preferably formed on the incline or chuteway 13 and serve to direct the commodity or article vended out through the opening 16 in the front of the casing, and the incline or chuteway is provided with an opening 17 for the substantially as shown, although the ejector may be constructed of more than one piece of material or in a slightly-different manner from that herein described and shown without departing from the invention.

Movably connected with the brackets or lugs 7 are depending arms 24, one whereof is preferably extended, as shown at 25, and is connected with the frame 5 by a spring or other device 26, whereby the arms are nor mally extended or retained in a position at a distance from the frame 5, and said arms are preferably connected by transverse plate 27, carrying a depending extension 28, constructed to engage or enter between the end 23 of the ejector 21 and a lug or extension 29 adjacent thereto, or the transverse plate and the arms 24 may be constructed integrally, if found desirable in practice.

A bell-crank or operating lever 30 preferably extends through and beyond the front of the casing, Figs. 2 to 5, and is desirably pivoted or fulcrumed to one of the lugs or brackets 7, as shown at 31, and is desirably retracted by a spring 32, by means of which the lower end of the lever is extended or retained in a position at a distance from the rocking frame or transverse plate 27, and the lower end of the operating-lever is preferably bent or deflected laterally, as shown at 33, and again upwardly, as shown at 34, and terminates in a bifurcated or yoke-shaped portion 35, Figs. 1, 3, and 6.

Formed on or connected with the brace 6 is a bracket 36, whereon is rotatably mounted an escapement toothed disk 37 in which is formed a notch or peripheral recess 38, Fig. 1, constructed to permit the passage of the peripheral wings or extensions 39, carried by the lower plate 8, whenever said notch or recess is brought into registering position or alinement therewith, and by so passing through said disk the extensions 39 will rotate the disk on the point or portion of a revolution, so as to bring said recess out of registering position with the succeeding extension 39, which contacts with the face of the disk 37 and stops the revolution of the commodity-carrier in such a position that the succeeding receptacle 9 is brought into and retained in registering position with the ejecting device 21, so that such receptacle may be emptied thereby, as more fully explained hereinafter.

The shaft 4 is preferably constructed with the square or angular extremity, Fig. 3, for the purpose of receiving a tool for the purpose of rotating or winding up the spring 4 secured to the shaft 4 and to the top plate 8, and designed to impart a rotary motion to the commodity-carrier, and a ratchet-andpawl device 4 may be provided to prevent the unwinding of the spring 4, as will be readily understood.

Formed on or connected with the brace 36 is a spring-actuated pawl or dog 40, constructed to engage and prevent the reverse rotation of the toothed disk 37, and this disk is rotated by means of a spring-operated pawl 41, movably connected with the rocking frame or transverse plate 27, whereby said disk is rotated one point or portion of a revolution every time the rocking frame is operated, which is accomplished through the deposit of a good coin within the machine.

A coin-slot 42 is formed in the front of the casing, Fig. 6, from whence the coin enters a hood 43 and descends upon an oscillating deflecting-rail 44, connected to a link 45, attached to the rocking frame 27 or to one of the arms 24 constituting said frame, whereby the deflecting-rail 44 can be operated to permit an elongated or elliptical coin or disk to fall therefrom upon the incline 13 and be returned to the purchaser.

Formed on or connected with the guideplate 46 is a coin guide or shield 47, constructed to retain the coin in position upon the deflecting-rail 44 and direct the same into the coin-trough 48, in which is mounted a coin-rail 49, and the guide-plate 46 is preferably cut away, as at 50, to permit the passage therethrough of the yoke-shaped or bifurcated end 35 of the operating-lever, substantially as shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 6 of the drawings.

A calipering device or coin-stop 51 is preferably mounted upon the guide-plate 46 and is constructed to receive and retard the progress of a coin during its passage along the coin-rail 49, and a magnet 52 is preferably mounted adjacent to the guide-plate 46, so that the poles thereof are located near the oscillating rail 44, in order that coins or disks of magnetizable material may be arrested during their passage along said rail and may be discharged therefrom by the oscillation thereof upon the incline or chuteway 13 and be thereby returned to the prospective purchaser.

The operation of the invention will be readily understood from the foregoing description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the following explanation thereof. l/Vhen an elongated coin or elliptical disk is deposited in the machine, it is stopped upon the deflecting-rail 4:4, as likewise takes place with a coin or disk of magnetizable material, when by operation of the bell-crank lever 30 the foregoing would be discharged from said rail upon the incline 13 and be returned to the prospective purchaser. When a telephone-slug or perforated disk or ring is employed to operate the machine, the same will be forced by the bifurcated end 35 of the operatingdever against the coin-bearing finger 53, and thus be tilted or turned over and fall upon the in cline without operating the machine. Vvhen a good coin of the required diameter and thickness is deposited in the machine, the same travels along upon the coin-rail 49 until it reaches the coin-stop 51 when by the actuation of the operating-lever 30 the bifurcated end thereof is forced against such coin and bears the same toward the bearingfinger 53, thus operating the rocking frame 27 and projecting the ejector 21 under the commodity-receptacle 9 and against the lowermost commodity or vendable article therein, thereby sliding the latter off of the ring 12 into the incline 13, from which it slides out into the receptacle 14 and. can be removed by the purchaser. After the rock ing frame has been thus operated a predetermined number of times, corresponding to the number of articles or commodities in the receptacles, the peripheral opening 38 in the toothed disk 37 will be brought into registering position with one of the peripheral wings 39, thus allowing the latter to pass therethrough and progress the disk 37 and bringing another commodity-receptacle into registering position with the ejecting device, it being understood that the commoditycarrier is preferably spring-actuated.

It is not desired to limit or confine this i11- vention to the specific construction, combination, and arrangement of parts herein shown and described, and the right is reserved to make all such changes in and modification of the same as come within the spirit and scope of the invention.

I claim 1. A vending-machine provided with commodity-receptacles, a sliding ejecting device, means for progressing said receptacles and retaining the same in registering position with said device, and mechanism for actuating the parts.

A vending-machine provided with commodity-receptacles carrying moving devices, a disk having peripheral recesses constructed to permit the passage of one of said devices when in registering position with said recess and to retain in position a receptacle, means for rotating said disk and mechanism for actuating the parts.

3. A vending-machine provided with commodity-receptacl es carrying moving devices,

a disk having a peripheral recess constructedto permit the passage of said devices successively and to prevent such passage, means for rotating the disk to bring the recesses therein in registering position with one of said devices, mechanism to discharge a commodity, and instrumentalities for operating the parts.

1. A vending-machine provided with commodity-receptacles carrying extensions, a toothed disk having a peripheral recess, a rocking frame carrying pawls engaging said teeth, whereby said recesses are brought into registering position with one of said extensions to permit the passage of the latter beyond the disk, means for discharging a commodity and mechanism for actuating the parts.

5. A vending-machine provided with commodityreceptacles carrying extensions, a disk having a peripheral recess constructed to permit the passage of said extensions when in registering position with said recess, a rocking frame, devices carried thereby to operate said disk, means for discharging a commodity and mechanism for operating the parts.

6. A vending machine provided with commodity-receptacles carrying stop devices, means for discharging a commodity, a rocking frame operating said means, a disk to permit and to prevent the progression of said receptacles for a predetermined period, devices carried by said rocking frame to move said disk and mechanism for actuating the parts.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, at Los Angeles, county of Los Angeles, State of California, this 21st day of May, 1904.

WILLIAM P. MAOARTOR.

Witnesses:

WM. G. CATEs, MIeNoN Four). 

